Sunday, October 9, 2016

Woman tortured over several hours in Cairns house, police allege and other top stories.

  • Woman tortured over several hours in Cairns house, police allege

    Woman tortured over several hours in Cairns house, police allege Posted October 04, 2016 13:10:30 A man has been charged over the torture of a woman allegedly held captive for several hours at a Cairns house in far north Queensland last month.Police will allege the man seriously assaulted the woman repeatedly over a number of hours and refused to let her leave following an argument at a Manoora house on September 25.The victim has later managed to flee the residence a..
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  • Freshie students pedal safely to school in Cairns

    Freshie students pedal safely to school in Cairns
    Freshwater State School Students ready to pedal to school after their safety briefing. As the Adopt-a-Cop for Freshwater State School I took great pleasure recently in handing over safety vests for the first bike bus that the school has been able to run in a number of years. The newly constructed bike path in the suburbs of Stratford and Freshwater was put to the test by students and there was no doubt that the new path provided a very safe passage to school. It was a sight to behold as I stopp..
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    IT  WAS the biggest crowd Jack Bowes has ever played in front of but the Cairns Saints product could taste what he wants to achieve in his promising junior AFL career. Bowes played in the Chris Judd squad in the NAB All Stars Under-18 clash at Punt Rd Oval on Friday.In the first time the country’s leading prospects have played in the grand final eve game, a packed crowd saw the Judd side beat the Michael O’Loughlin team by 38 points, winning 15.7 (97) to 8.11 (59).Bowes, a Gold Coast academy mid..
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  • FNQ has 6pc of people but 10pc of prisoners

    FNQ has 6pc of people but 10pc of prisoners
    ONE in 10 people behind bars in Queensland hail from the Far North.A custodial offender snapshot released last month showed there were more than 800 adult men and women from the region in jails across the state.Cairns tops the list of prisoner origins within the Far North, with 68 of the population from the city, ­although this would include loc­als with no fixed address bef­ore entering jail.However, it is indigenous communities Aurukun (65) and Kowanyama (34), along with Mareeba (46), which ar..
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  • Carroll chase of glory leads to decision to stay put

    Carroll chase of glory leads to decision to stay put
    A  DESIRE to lead a homegrown team to a premiership in 2017 trumped big money ­offers to keep Jamie Carroll at FNQ Heat. The 26-year-old showed no signs of captaincy dragging him down during his rookie season in charge, scoring 15 goals.Carroll said he could take his game to another level armed with the lessons of grand final defeat and hoped to continue leading by example.“I’ve had plenty of offers to go down south and go to Melbourne, but for me you can’t buy premierships. Playing for your own..
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  • Plastic bags thing of the past under new Palm Cove concept

    Plastic bags thing of the past under new Palm Cove concept
    PLASTIC bags could soon be a distant memory for Palm Cove residents and visitors as leaders push for a community-wide ban in the next six months. Cr Brett Olds said the move to replace plastic bags with hessian would not eliminate pollution, but it was “a little step in the right direction”.“We should care about the turtles and the Reef,” Cr Olds said.“We’ve seen what happens to animals when they eat plastic bags.“I went down to talk to the guy who runs the supermarket, and he’s keen as mustard...
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Sister and nursing home ask strangers to stop visiting Tarzan .Customers want H & M, Max Brenner, Aldi and Ikea in Cairns .
Royal commission: Monsignor John Usher denies protecting Cardinal George Pell .Report: Shots fired at Abbas's home day after PA president attended Peres funeral .

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